Improvement in combined water-tank and warming-closet



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JOEL TIFFANY, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 93,771, dated August 17 1 869.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED WATER-TANK AND WARMING-CLOSET.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom itmay concern Be it known that I, JOEL TIFFANY, of the city and county of Albany, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combining Water-Tanks and Heating-Closets with Stoves, both heating and cooking; and I hereby declare'that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, forming a part of this specification.

My invention has for its object such a construction and combination of a water-tank and warming-closet with, stoves, both for cooking and heating purposes, as to be able to use the products of combustion and heated air, after they have left the stove, for the purpose of heating water, and warming or keeping warm whatever may have been put in 'the closet for such purpose.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents the skeleton outlines of a stove, and of the tank and closet, $50., the tank being surrounded by a dead air space, attached and combined with the stove.

- Figure 2 represents the stove,tank, and closet complete, except as to the lids of the tank.

Figure 3 represents a vertical sectional view of the tank and closet, showing the direction of the currents of heated -air, as, and other escaping products of combustion, before and after leaving the stove, and while circulating along and between the warming-closet and ,water-tank, and then onward and outward.

Figure 4 is a representation of'a'horizontal sectional view of the stove and closet nearthe base or bottom of each. 1

The warming-closet and tank are, separated from each other by a chamber for the heated products of combustion, connecting with a pipe passing up through the warming-closet, and conveying thence the escaping products of combustion after they have left the stove, from the stove to such chamber; and said chamber is connected outwardly by a pipe or fiue passing thence to the pipe leading to the chimney.

The warming-closet B is heated by means of the pipe f, connecting the discharge-flue of the stove with the chamber a a, as seen in fig. 3, and also by means of the chamber a a covering the entire top of the closet. I

The water-tank is heated by means of the hot air and gases discharged into the chamber a a, between the closet and the tank. I

By the above arrangement and combination of the water-tank and warming-closet, they can be attached to any class of stoves, if desirable. They can be so connected with the exit-pipe of a stove, furnace, 01' fireplace even, as to conduct the escaping products of combustion around and through them, so as to economize and utilize the heat which would otherwise pass off into the chimney and be lost.

The tank or closet being constructed separately or together, independent of the stove, they are capable of being detached therefrom, leaving the stovecomplete without their attachment, and leaving them complete without being attached to the stove,

The tank -and closet may be attached to the stove in many ways. A very simple way, where they are attached to the back of the stove, as represented in the accompanying drawings, is by means of lugs or hooks, either cast in the back of the stove, with a corresponding eye in the side of the case surrounding the tank, or in the top and side of the closet; or the attaching hook and eye may be reversed.

The bottom of the closet, upon which "he tank is situated, may be provided with feet, asrepresented in fig. 2-, or it rnaystaud directly upon the floor; or it may be supported bya projection of the bottom of the stove for such purpose, or in any other equivalent manner.

Having thus fully described my said invention, and

the manner of applying the same, I will proceed to set forth my claims as to what I desire to secure by Letters Patent.

1. Irclaim a water-tank and warming-closet, with a jacket surrounding the former, in combination with the chamber between the tank and closet, constructed so as to be attached to or detached from the outside of a stove or furnace, substantially as described.

2. I claim the watcr-tank A, the warming-closet B, space 0, and fines f a 1, when constructed as and for the purpose described. V

' V JOEL TIFFANY.

' \Vitnesses:

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